Jeremy Corbyn was attacked last night over radical proposals to give Labour Party members a vote on which MPs sit in the shadow cabinet. Corbyn will use a meeting of the party’s national executive committee on Tuesday to advocate plans for “pushing forward democracy in our party at every level”. This would involve having a third of the shadow cabinet directly elected by party members, a third chosen by the leader and a third elected by the parliamentary party of MPs and peers, according to a report in The Observer newspaper. In a statement last night, Corbyn, who is expected…

Source: The Times September 17, 2016 23:26 UTC